Awilda
Awilda was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 1,725 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Awilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Awilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Awilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,397, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
89 babies in 1959, the peak
Awilda peaked in 1959, when 89 girls were given it, #1,129 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #14,397 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,698 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,654 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,933 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,790 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,896 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,371 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,902 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,994 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,162 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 8 | #8,061 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,648 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,641 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,345 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,116 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,964 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,749 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,005 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,799 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,013 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,522 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,489 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,198 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,176 | 25.2 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,858 | 30.9 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,359 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,972 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,271 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,955 | 24.3 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,626 | 30.5 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,481 | 34.5 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,490 | 32.5 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,422 | 34.0 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,372 | 35.4 |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,290 | 37.9 |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,333 | 35.1 |
| 1961 | 75 | #1,278 | 37.2 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,338 | 33.6 |
| 1959 | 89 | #1,129 | 44.0 |
| 1958 | 68 | #1,281 | 33.8 |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,176 | 39.1 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,482 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,308 | 30.2 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,443 | 24.7 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,738 | 17.5 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,025 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,316 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,662 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,417 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,908 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,260 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,000 | 3.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,671 | 3.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,475 | 4.7 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,134 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,034 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,038 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,511 | 4.9 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,339 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,484 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Awilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Awilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Awilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Awilda, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,725 Americans ever recorded as Awilda. The median Awilda alive today is 61 years old; half are between 53 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 3,550 people named Awilda (3,543 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 718 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 584 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Awilda born?
The states with the most babies named Awilda are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,014 | not ranked | 7.0× |
| New Jersey | 157 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Awilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Awilda is most over-represented in New York: since 1916 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Awilda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Awilda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Awilda and names like it
- Compare Awilda and TereasaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sAwilda peaked in 1959.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Awilda since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Awilda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Awilda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.